Hi María, welcome! AFAIK the Mentor Program is still running: Lisley and Helen can you confirm? On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 08:43:04PM +0200, María wrote: > Dear all, > > Hello! My name is María and I wrote this e-mail about 5 to 6 months ago to > mentoring@women.debian.org but got no answer so far... I am really > interested on debian and so I send it again to this list in case the other > list is not being followed or doesn't exist anymore. Sorry if I am spamming > your mailing list. ^-^ Don't worry the list is here exactly for talking about how make Debian more welcoming and help newcomers! > I am interested in working on Debian development. I am a computer > > scientist, but my knowledge of Linux is still limited. However, I really > > like gnu license and the debian social contract, so I would like to get > > deeply involved. Right now I work at UPV modifying a hypervisor called > > Xtratum, so I have a basic knowledge of Operating System level programming. > > I would like to program and fix bugs. My final goal is to be able to help > > with kernel maintenance and enhancement, but by now I would like to learn > > all the basics that may help me achieve this goal. > > > > Please give me some advice if possible. I am Spanish and can manage > > English. I can also understand Catalan. I wouldn't mind helping with > > translations and documentation, but as I already said, I am mainly > > interested in programming and bugs. My suggestion is to join the QA Team [1], helping them in their effort (fixing bugs, doing maintainance for orphaned packages, etc.). If you want to work on bugs, you can take a look at this tutorial [2] and read a bit about bug triaging [3]. Another idea could be to work on bugs tagged "gift" [4] on the Bug Tracking System (BTS): these bugs are easy to squash and in general suitable for new contributors to Debian. 1: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/Join 2: http://wiki.debian.org/HowtoUseBTS 3: http://wiki.debian.org/BugTriage 4: http://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/GiftTag Another interesting thing could be to help in squashing RC-stable bugs: bugs affecting our stable release sometimes are less actively squashed, but are as important as the RC-bugs for the other releases. Rhonda, AFAIK, works a lot on them: and she'll be probably happy to give you some advice. If you have any doubt, don't hesitate and ask here or on our IRC chan (#debian-women at irc.debian.org)! Cheers, Francesca -- "Nostra patria è il mondo intero e nostra legge è la libertà ed un pensiero ribelle in cor ci sta." P.Gori
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